He is internationally recognised as one of the leading experts in risk and opportunity management and for around 20 years has been coaching companies in all sectors and of all sizes in all issues related to risk and opportunity management and value-based corporate management. As part of intensive and in-house seminars run by the Risk Academy, he has trained and coached more than 6,500 risk managers. At the HDU, he is the professional head of the accredited Masters course in "Risk an Compliance Management".

In RiskNET (www.RiskNET.de, www.risknet.atwww.risknet.ch), he has established what is by some distance the leading German-language competence portal for risk management and compliance. Earlier in his career, he was Chief Risk Officer at IBM Central Europe, where he was involved in the introduction of a global risk management process for IBM and led several major international projects. He studied economics (specialising in actuarial mathematics) in Cologne and Norwich/UK. He then went on to study political science, psychology and philosophy. He also completed an executive Masters course in risk and compliance management.

Frank Romeike is member of the Bavarian Association of Journalists (Bayerischer Journalistenverband) and the German Federation of Journalists (Deutscher Journalisten-Verband). The German Federation of Journalists is the professional association, trade union and service center for journalists.

He is a member of various professional associations and the author of numerous publications, including several standard works on issues relating to risk management, scenario analysis, quantitative methods and value-based management.

He is also the professional head of the "Solvency II" user group at Versicherungsforen Leipzig. Versicherungsforen Leipzig GmbH is a service provider for research and development in the assurance sector. As a major player in the insurance industry, its core competence lies in identifying, addressing and researching trends, new issues and their consequences.

Frank Romeike regularly gives presentations at national and international conferences on various issues relating to risk management, value and risk based management, scenario analysis and company valuation.